Movies like Face 2009

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Face (2009)
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Face (2009)
Original name: Visage
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Style: surreal, humorous, stylized, semi serious, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat
Plot: erotica, supernatural, showbiz, filmmaking, nothing goes right, lifestyle, disorder, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaker, underground, face, museum, ambition, nudity, female nudity, flood, water, bird, male nudity, surrealism, very little dialogue, erotic dance, louvre, strong sexual content ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, paris france, taiwan
Keyword: chinese, taiwanese

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Most similar movies to Face

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about artists and showbiz, filmmaking, lifestyle, showbiz, disorder, actor's life and nothing goes right mostly in Drama, Comedy and Musical genres. Some movies like Face: The Wayward Cloud (2005), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), The Hole (1998), Les Jours venus (2014), The Film to Come (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Style: disturbing, erotic, surreal, humorous, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, sexual perversion, isolation, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, human nature, sex, erotica, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, atmospheric, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot: tourist, longing, human nature, introspection, theater, solitude, dull life, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei, japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.4
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The Hole (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the final days of the year 1999, most everyone in Taiwan has died. A strange plague has ravished the island. Supposedly spread by cockroaches, the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects. Eventually, they die. ...
Style: surreal, contemplative, inspirational, brutal, aesthetic ...
Plot: disaster, erotica, virus, zombie, human relationship, hardcore, infection, minimalism, minimal dialogue, underground, illness, architecture ...
Time: year 1998
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Film to Come (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another ...
Style: sincere, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, siblings relations, couples, artists and showbiz, disorder, actor's life, midlife crisis, couple relations, nothing goes right, actor, brother brother relationship, movie actor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
Style: anthology, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: filmmaking, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, world spanning, cinema, surrealism, filmmaker, art, film history, artist, cowboy, respect ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, portugal, europe, africa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Stray Dogs (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, ...
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, art house, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: children, homelessness, poverty, youth, minimalism, underground, minimal dialogue, homeless, birthday, dog, rain, little girl ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: obsession, isolation, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death, hotel ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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All About Actresses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: filmmaking, actress, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, actor's life, love and romance, midlife crisis, money, film producer, humiliation, actor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style: humorous, absurd, satirical, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: filmmaking, death, actor's life, showbiz, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, cons and scams, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, france, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 4K
Takeshis' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, postmodern ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, yakuza, dark humor, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, identity crisis, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Ex-Wife of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lovers reunited, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, pregnancy, couple relations, lifestyle, disorder, love and romance, couples, screwball, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
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Actors (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, film industry, actress, actor, television, jazz, midlife crisis, motorcycle accident ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, counterculture, fashion industry, satire, model, fashion model, hippie, designer, swing, lust, modernism, art ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.2
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Jake Squared (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.
Style: semi serious, psychological, contemplative, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: midlife crisis, introspection, filmmaking, hollywood, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, art, relationships, losing-it hero, cause and meaning, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Passion (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: society, celebrity culture, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, religions or cults, celebration, art, filmmaking, religion, artists and showbiz, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Whiskey with Vodka (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: alcohol abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, troublemaker, actor's life, aging, artists and showbiz, drinking, drunk, actor, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Journey to the West (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 56 min.
Story: A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: clergy, solitude, monk, self discovery, introspection, journey, underground, spirit, art, buddhist monk, urban, no dialogue
Time: 21st century
Place: marseille, france, french riviera, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Generic Thriller (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The writer can do anything he wants, right? Or maybe not...as Steven, a handsome young theater history professor discovers when he sets out to write a stage thriller - a plain, old generic thriller - only to discover that his characters prefer a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, surreal, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: disorder, college, artists and showbiz, gender, nothing goes right, gay, breaking the fourth wall, writer's block, flash forward, homosexual, serial killer, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Jackpot (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sunny Holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a nine-month tour of bleak western towns. He takes off with his road manager in a pink Chrysler in search of their own version of the American Dream: a country ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot: relationship vs career, ambition, obsessive quest, performer's life, lifestyle, musician's life, showbiz, on the road, family problems, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, road trip ...
Time: year 2001
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.5
 3K
On Tour (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Formerly successful television producer Joachim Zand returns from America to his native France, where he previously has left everything behind, including friends, enemies and his own children. In his company is a burlesque striptease troupe whom he ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: performer's life, burlesque, estrangement, family relations, family life, lifestyle, nothing goes right, comeback, showbiz, on the road, father son relationship, courage ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Free Fall (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, South Korea, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful ...
Style: anthology, surreal, humorous, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: male nudity, dark humor, family relations, unsupportive spouse, obsession, couple relations, social decay, society, guru, couples, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.4
 2K
Dead Tired (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
Style: light, absurd, melancholic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, twins, self discovery, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, actor's life, satire, cinema, filmmaking, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Fantastic World of Juan Orol (2012)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, stylized, captivating, realistic
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, couples, showbiz, artists and showbiz, athlete's life, husband wife relationship, biopic, death of wife, gangster, cabaret, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, spain, cuba, latin america, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Britney, Baby, One More Time (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Dude Schmitz, an independent filmmaker, attempting to secure funds for his second feature, blows an opportunity at what promises to be a lucrative interview with pop sensation Britney Spears. Dejected, Schmitz discovers Robert Stephens, a young, gay ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: desire for fame, hidden identity, obsessive quest, on the road, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, nothing goes right, transvestism, filmmaking, showbiz, teenage life ...
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
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The River (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In Taiwan a young man with a mysterious paralysis massages his neck with his mother's dildo, meanwhile the rain is flooding the island.
Style: contemplative, bleak, aesthetic, slow cinema, thought provoking ...
Plot: gay, gay hustler, gay incest, alienation, dysfunctional family, lgbt teen, love, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, love letter, minimalism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: taiwan, china, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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